Thank you Busy lizzie I know and love the shasta daisy, love all daisies especially my absolute favourite which is the Mexican daisy Erigeron which I have in my front garden growing all in front of our white painted picket fence
Beaus mum; I just bung them in, but the bed is an oval surrounding a tiny lawn, so I do consider 'echoing' colours. So if there is a salmon pink for example in the foreground I try to have a glimpse of something else salmon lurking in the background.
It's worth having quite a few different alliums for early in the summer; they add a bit of height and some like shubertii are truely spectacular, even though not one of the tallest. Everything this year is about 30/40 cm taller than usual because of the weather.
Thank you artjak for your tips and think following this summer when all dies back I will re evaluate my cottage garden as looks lovely one day and then rubbish the next! My worst downfall is lack of patience! If I have a gap I fill it then it gets all crowded and one lovely plant squashes out another. I have planted so many plants the seven years I have had this garden and so many have never been seen again! I could weep when I look through my box of labels BUT next season there will be a new me! Especially after meeting you all on here, I have learnt so much already and only joined about a week ago
This is my star today, especially as I didn't even know it was there, last time I looked it was just a small tree I hadn't taken much notice of. One of the joys of moving house!
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B M, You could consider having some plants in pots, so that when there is a gap the pot can be sunk into the ground and easily removed if everything is getting squashed.
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It's a leucanthemum, Shasta Daisy.
Thank you Busy lizzie I know and love the shasta daisy, love all daisies especially my absolute favourite which is the Mexican daisy Erigeron which I have in my front garden growing all in front of our white painted picket fence
A lovely cream Californian Poppy
A happy mix - non of my doing, they just want to be like that
Sunflowers sown by birds from hulled sunflower seeds
Simply gorgeous artjak
This is how I dream my flower beds would look
My star at the moment has to be the Penstemons. All bare roots in the winter, things just shoot up with a bit of sunshine!
Love the 'happy mix' artjak and the penstemons, Lyn and Wendy's pic from the other page
I like a packed border with lots of colour - it's like an ornamental meadow.
Lyn, wow
Beaus mum; I just bung them in, but the bed is an oval surrounding a tiny lawn, so I do consider 'echoing' colours. So if there is a salmon pink for example in the foreground I try to have a glimpse of something else salmon lurking in the background.
It's worth having quite a few different alliums for early in the summer; they add a bit of height and some like shubertii are truely spectacular, even though not one of the tallest. Everything this year is about 30/40 cm taller than usual because of the weather.
Thank you artjak for your tips and think following this summer when all dies back I will re evaluate my cottage garden as looks lovely one day and then rubbish the next! My worst downfall is lack of patience! If I have a gap I fill it then it gets all crowded and one lovely plant squashes out another. I have planted so many plants the seven years I have had this garden and so many have never been seen again! I could weep when I look through my box of labels
BUT next season there will be a new me! Especially after meeting you all on here, I have learnt so much already and only joined about a week ago 
This is my star today, especially as I didn't even know it was there, last time I looked it was just a small tree I hadn't taken much notice of. One of the joys of moving house!
B M, You could consider having some plants in pots, so that when there is a gap the pot can be sunk into the ground and easily removed if everything is getting squashed.